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RAILWAY GAR.

No. 409,002. Patented Aug. 13, 1889.

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DAVID L. DAnNEs, or. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO ALEXANDER J. LEITH, or NEw YORK, N. Y., AND WILLIAM R. STIRLING, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

RAILWAY-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 409,002, dated August 13, 1889.

Application filed April 9, 1889. Serial No. 306,557. (No modal.)

To all whom it may concern: projecting lips, as at D, for throwing the drip- Be it known that 1, DAVID LBARNES, of water away from the sides of the ear. These Chicago, Cook county, State of Illinois, have cornice-pieces run underneath the sheets B invented a new and useful Improvement in and outside of the sides A, as clearly shown 5 Car-Construction, of which the following is a in Fig. 15.

full, true, and exact description, reference be- In the center of the car a third corrugated ing had to the accompanying drawings. 1 piece E may be inserted, which serves as a My invention relates to details of construcwater-shed to protect a door, which may be tion of railway-ears, and is shown as embodarranged beneath it. This is inserted be- 1o ied in a freight-car in which wood forms a tween the parts B and C, as shown. Upon part of the structure. I can, however, if dethe top of the roof the ordinary runningsired, make my ear entirely of metal. board F may be arranged, as shown. The My invention will be readily understood sides are supported upon posts G, which serve from the accompanying drawings, in which likewise as the support for 'the planking 15 Figure 1 represents an exterior end eleva within. This planking may be attached in tion of the end of the side of the car; Fig. 2, various ways. an inside elevation of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, an in- In Fig. 11 joists H are arranged over the side elevation of the end of the car, showing flanges of the posts G, and the planking J is the sides partly in section; Fig. 4., a plan view bolted to the same, as shown in Fig. 12. The 20 of the floor of the car, showing the sides and posts themselves are filled with suitablyend in section; Fig. 5, a plan of the roof of shaped wooden uprights nailed thereto, and the car; Fig. 6, a view of the bottom of the the planking J is directly nailed to such car; Fig.7, a detail of the floor of the car and Wooden filling. The posts are extended upadjacent parts, showing the structure and arward, fitting the corrugation of the side he 25 rangement of the truss-rods; Fig. 8, a view of neath the cornice-pieces, as shown, and within the end of the car at right angles to Fig. 7 these posts are riveted the carlings K, extend- Fig. 9, a detail of the truss-rod struts and ing across the car and fitting the corrugations bracing of the same; Fig. 10, a View partly ofthe roof. The lower ends of the posts G in section showing the detail of construction rest against the support L, Fig. 13, attached 0 of the corner of the car; 11, a section to the side sill N of the car, and, as shown,

through part of the side of the car, showing integral therewith. Covering the lower ends the posts and the method of attaching the of these posts are the suitably-shaped conwood-work to the same; Fig. 12, a modificatinuous clamps N preferably longitudinally tion of the method of attaching the woodcorrugated and shaped at the posts to cover 5 work to the post; Fig. 13, a vertical section the same and hold them firmly against the of the lower part of the post-attaching mechside sills N, where these clamps are bolted to anism; Fig. let, an exterior elevation of the the side sills by bolts 0, as shown. These lower part of the post, showing the metallic clamps overlap each other on the corners, as

construction at that point; Fig. 15, a transplainly shown in Fig. 10. The longitudinal 4o verse section through the middle of the car, beam J may be bolted inside of these side showing the water-shed plate arranged over sills, thereby serving to stiffen the same, and

the sliding door of the car; and Fig. 16, a secmay be recessed for the reception of the bolts t-ion showing the detail of the construct-ion of 0. Similar beams may be used inside at the the corner-posts of the car. ends. 45 The outside of my car is generally 0011- The construction of the corner-posts is structed of corrugated metal A and the roof shown in Figs. 7, 10, and 16, where G repreof similar corrugated metal B. The corrusents one of the side posts, and G one of the gated-metal sheets B, forming the roof, are end posts, which in their relation to each united to the sides by cornice-pieces O, haw other are clearly shown in Fig. 16. The side I00 50 ing corrugations fitting the corrugations of and end sheets A A comein. contact with the the side of the roof, and preferably having post-s G G, and the corner-cap P, suitably shaped, protects the otherwise exposed ends of the side and end sheets. The side and end sills may be fastened together by a triangular brace A, Fig. 10, where the relations of these sills are clearly shown. The side sill extends far enough to support the lower part of the post G. The end cornices U are shaped at the ends to cover the corner-caps and the side cornices, as indicated in Fig. 1.

The car-body proper is supported upon six longitudinal sills, of which the side sills are shown at N, the intermediate sills at N, and. the center sills at N These sills are supported from longitudinal trussrods, which truss-rods themselves are supported upon the trussed body-bolsters R, as shown in Fl g. 8.

The truss-rods S pass through the end sills T and have nuts or suitable fastenings on the ends thereof to hold them in position. They then pass over the trussed bolsters, as shown, and then beneath the struts V, as clearly shown. These struts V are bolted or suitably fastened to the sills N N, as shown in Fig. I), the center sills N restin g directly on the bol' sters, as shown in Fig. 3. This trussed bolster has its lower part made of corrugated metal, as clearly shown in Figs. 6, 7, and 8, the corrugations extending from beyond the flatcenter part toward the sides. The center is preferablyprovided with an opening for the king-bolt and the center plate, as indicated. The vertical end flanges of the parts R are bolted or suitably attached to the top member \Vof the truss, which serves likewise as a support for the floor-planks of the car. The struts themselves may be braced by a transverse brace X, which starts from the center sill, Fig. 9, and is attached to the outside strut V and to the intermediate strut between its points of end attachment. The part of the trussed bolster over the center pl ateis preferably strengthened by two anglcirons Y, suitably fastened thereto. The floor itself is bolted upon the beams Z, which are fastened to the longitudinal sills, and which serve likewise as stitlfeners for these longitudinal sills. The construction of the longitudinal sills may be readily somewhat varied, so as to employ angle-iron instead of channelbars, as Shown.

I have not shown the detail of the method of fastening of all the parts together, which may be by riveting or bolti n g, or in any suitable manner.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A metallic car, a metallic cornice intermediate between the sides and the root and attached to both, and corrugated to [it the corrugations of the side and the roof, substantially as described.

2. The metallic cornice C, herein described, corrugated to fit the corrugationsof the side, and provided with an external lip D, substantially as and f or the purposes described.

3. The combination of the side posts G with a longitudinal side sill projecting outward and serving as a base for said side posts, substantially as described.

at. The truss-rod struts V, made of pressed steel, attached to the sills and braced by piece X, extending in a downwardly direction upon the side of the car inward and attached to the side sill, the intermediate sill, and the center sill, thereby preventing the failure of the sills under a heavy load and acting as a lateral brace as well as a strut on the side sills, substantially as described.

5. The lateral brace X, of pressed steel, in combination with three longitudinal sills, to each of which it is attached, and the trussrod struts V, for supportingthesills,sul;)stantially as described.

6. The combination of the center plate with the stiffening {tl'lglG-il'OUS Y, substantially as described.

'7. The pressed-steel body-bolster R, longitudinally corrugated intermediate the side and center sills, substantially as described.

8. The combination of the corrugated pressed-steel body-bolster R with the top m cmber \V, forming a complete truss, substantially as described.

9. The combination, with the sills N N of longitudinal wooden stringers (11, serving as still'eners therefor and for the attachment of the flooring, substantially as described.

10. The combination ot' the corrugated sides A A and the corner-cap 1, fitting the said corrugations and covering the ends of said pieces A A, substantially as described.

11. The combination of the interlocking corner-posts G .l" with the corrugated sides and ends fitting the same, substantially as described.

12. The combination of the vertical posts (l G with a clamp N, surroumling the same and holding the posts upon the lowcrsupport, substantiall y described.

13. The combination of the post G,pro\ld(1.d with flanges, the strips ll,lockingsald flanges, and the corrugated side A, fitting the post, substantially as described.

14. The hollow post G, provided with a wood filler attached thereto, in combination with the beam J,nailed to the liningof the post (i, substantially as described.

15. The combination of the roof ll, cornice (l, and intermediate water-shed E substantially as described.

16. The combination of a side post G, a carling K, fitting the same, and likewise fitting the corrugations ot the corrugated roof, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speci ticat'ion in the presence of two sulr scribing witnesses.

DAVID L. BARNES.

\Vitnesses:

Janus (J. MCSHANE, W. W. MENDENHALL.

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